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`Belfast Transport' is the story of public transport in Belfast
from the horse buses of the 1860s to the Metro buses which were
introduced in 2005. It is a fascinating story encompassing the
change from horse buses to horse trams; the introduction of motor
buses; 30 years of the trolleybuses; the closure of the tramways in
the early 1950s; the closure of the trolleybus system in the late
1960s and the total dependence on diesel buses for intra-urban
transport in Belfast. The story is told mainly through pictures
with extended captions, describing not only the vehicles themselves
but also their physical and social contexts. It covers the period
of civil disturbances euphemistically known as `The Troubles' from
1969 during which the Belfast Corporation and its successor Citybus
lost members of staff, hundreds of vehicles and millions of pounds.
It covers managers from the charismatic Andrew Nance in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth century to the equally charismatic
Werner Heubeck in the late twentieth and early twenty-first
centuries. Different men; different methods but with the same
purpose; to provide that best transport that they could in the
climate in which they operated.
Belfast Corporation operated the largest trolleybus system in the
UK outside London, and its heyday was in the 1950s. This 1996 book,
reformatted and re-issued, captures the flavour of that period with
more than 200 photographs, covering the city route by route, with
additional sections on depots, tickets and preserved vehicles.
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